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• Court quashes $800M GRA tax imposition on Mohameds for importation of luxury vehicles

  (Kaieteur News) – The High Court on Thursday quashed an imposition of nearly $800 million in taxes and attempted seizures targeting two luxury vehicles belonging to Hana Mohamed and Bibi Mohamed by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). Justice Gino Persaud, who delivered the ruling, declared that the GRA’s enforcement actions and certain long-standing remigrant concession conditions […]

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• EPA gives go ahead to Aranka gold project using Chinese-developed leaching reagent

  (Kaieteur News) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted the Aranka Gold Leaching Project, which proposes to utilise Jin Chan (leaching reagent) to recover gold, from conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). In a June notice, EPA said it screened the application submitted by Orava Mining Equipment and General Sales Inc. for the grant of […]

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• Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a ‘forceful response’

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response,” ratcheting up tensions again over a waterway crucial for international energy supplies. The strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, has emerged as one of the […]

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